Picture a room nobody has cared about for years: black marks behind the sink, a window that will not open, things left where they fell. You would not want to sit down in it. English keeps that feeling and points it at other things — at what a person did, and at how a person holds on to money. In every use, the word is the speaker back from something that feels unclean.
From the word’s history
From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus, from sordeō and sordēs, meaning dirt or filth; possibly also by way of French sordide. The literal dirt is the oldest layer, and the moral uses grow out of it.
這個字來自中古英文 sordide，再往前是拉丁文 sordidus，出自 sordēs，意思就是髒污；也可能經過法文 sordide。所以真正的髒是最早的那一層，講品行、講貪財的用法都是從它長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for sordid (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:715370979:25335)
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